🚀 go-pugleaf

Hai all,

I have a question, which maybe looks sily, but I will explain

Would it be possible to add a new backend to GCC which will be plain
ANSI-C? 
I'm quite sure it is "possible", but I realy want to know how much
work it will be, how "good" the code will be, and Maybe it is already
been done?


Ok, mine motivation:
I have a few, First when a good gcc-to-C compiler exist we can use GCC
as crosscompiler for "strange" target for other languages as C
(E.g. for many dedicated systems good C compilers exist, but no C++ or
Objective-C compilers. Such a gcc-to-C compiler can be used as to
produce code, like other tools (yacc, lex, etc)  wich is oftern more
acceptable than "stange" compilers. Often I can use any tool to
produce some C code I like, but I have to use Version X of compiler Y
to produce an image.

Second, it can be nice to study the optimizer. Nowdays, I sometimes run
GCC on a "short" piece of C (or ObjC, ..) code with -S as option to
produce assembly, and study that asm. but that is hard! When the
output is C code, it is easier to see what is hapening (I hope:-)

BTW, It isn't that strange, Most early C++ compilers did it that way!
The compiled to C!

Thanks __GAM